Sunday, July 31, 2011

July Flying Carpet


In July the Flying Carpet travelled around the world by staying home.
Folk Art Market in Santa Fe
is a yearly festive gathering of crafts people
from all over the world
sponsored by The Museum of International Folk Art.
www.folkartmarket.org

IMAGINE careening through booths of handmade treasures


What a paradise for a carpet.

IMAGINE a world of feet 
stomping, dancing, jingling, and undulating 
across your surface!

...and seeing faces like this!


IMAGINE carrying a vintage globe through the market 
and asking artists from all different countries 
to write LOVE in their language on transparent hearts. 
Then IMAGINE affixing each heart to its country 
while IMAGINING a world with no boundaries 
and people speaking the language of love.


(The carpet occasionally flashes on the sixties.)

Then IMAGINE the next week 
rising, swirling, and whirling 
with the Flying Men of Vera Cruz 
suspended from their 60 foot pole 
at Rancho de las Golandrinas.


IMAGINE a wildest dream becoming real.

Special thanks to John Lennon 
and the hundreds of people 
who contribute 
creative energy, time, money, love 
and IMAGINATION 
to Folk Art Market.


Saturday, July 2, 2011

June Flying Carpet

Escaping its alien captors, the Flying Carpet
flashed through the stratosphere and the blazing of fires
to the Threshold of Dreams


dreams of hourglasses filled with phosphorescence


                                                dreams of inexplicable shimmers


dreams of shrouded wing-light


dreams of maps of ash and sand


dreams of air like chalk


dreams of cavorting pinwheels


dreams of splintered graves


dreams of angels with metal shadows


dreams of slipping through the cracks between the worlds


Special thanks to Maggie, Ro, and Horace McAffee